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...timber workers over its plans to protect vast new areas of forest - which ended up costing it two seats in Tasmania - before releasing his own plan. In the last few days, the campaign got personal. In a speech to the National Press Club, Howard labeled Latham "a behavioral policeman"; Latham pointed in reply to Howard's anti-Asian immigration comments two decades ago. But even as the parties scrambled to out-fox and outspend each other, voters in marginals struggled to wade through the detail. "I know I should care about who's in charge of the country," said...
...dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich people's houses after his dad leaves them, and later becomes a disenchanted lawyer. "In the end there was only a closed-down resignation," Vic says in Commission, "the adult making-do that I'd grown into...
...markers? Could I master this language? Could I master the world? Probably not. But at least I wouldn’t feel so damn lazy. In just a few moments class will be over and I’ll be free to roam from Van Serg, past the HUPD policeman, back to my dorm room or wherever else I fancy. The day will bring more class, more work and more worry, but in sixteen or so hours, I’ll be back in bed. And just think: tomorrow I get to do it all over again...
When the former President read about one New York City policeman who was knocked down and kicked by protesters, he got a call through to the man, Detective William Sample, who was scheduled to be promoted. Bush thanked him for his courage, congratulated him on his new rank and was delighted when the fellow said matter-of-factly, "I'll be down at my desk tomorrow a proud sergeant...
...clear understanding of the emerging geostrategic realities and the ways in which they can be turned to advantage. Were Reagan still in office, it is almost certain that securing international cooperation would have been way down on the White House agenda. Reagan relished America's role as world policeman, a lone cowboy avenging evil. Bush knows that rounding up a posse in advance better suits today's world ... No matter how supportive the public may be of Bush's intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic...